Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-15
RnITORIAL MITES.

men all over the country will be glad tha
 Senator Eyarts hasspoken as he has, l
 EDITORIAL NOTES. The BostonTranscript says that the initial A. B. 0. F. M. are now read by many as th l American Board of Commuters of Famous Mistakes The Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost of Newarl
 has discovered his weight as politician. H,
 received only; 1861 ballots out of tota of 25, ,594.
 It is stated that the introduction of rail roads into Mexico has been productive o meteorological changes; that severe rai1
 storms follow the line of track, apparently
 attracted thereto by some electro magnetic influence In this country great deal o1
 water hss followed the building of railroads
 especially in the securities" thereof
 The results of the survey and last census
 of India are that the area of the peninsula of
 Hindostan is 1889, 624 square miles and the population 253, 1891, ,821. Although immense tracts of country are annually cultivated, ac- cording to the most recent survey O,00O,- ; 900 acres of land suitable for cultivation have not as vet been plowed. At the same time 120, ,0O0, 900 of acres are returned as waste land.
 Somebody in Hungary has been careless. The historian, N. Salamon, has just discov- cred in the archives of Buda-Pesth more than five hundred wills bearing dates between 1902 and 1874. These wills had been ill trusted to the public authorities for safe keeping. but by some unaccountable blunder they were never communicated to the heirs of the testators, so that in many cases the successions to which they related were treated as coming from persons who had died intestate and had to be regulated by long and costly lawsuits. M. Salamon's discovery is naturally causing profound sensation, for it may unsettle property that has passed into thousands of hands, and it must infalliblY produce a whole crop of fresh lawsuits
 Free trade used to be a popular idea in Georgia, but it is interesting to note that now the question of protection or no protec- tion seems likely to be the main issue in the coming contest there over the United States senatorship. Senator Colquitt is candidate for reelection. But he is a pronounced free trader, and that fact is regarded by those familiar with Georgia sentiment as seriously impairing his chances. The protectionist Democrats are unwilling to support him, and the Atlanta Constitution, one of the ablest and most influential papers in all the South is evidently preparing to oppose his election. Already it declares that it will be exceeding ly difficult to make the people of Georgia ae- cept Colquitts tariff ideas. Protection is certain to be made the issue against him, and the senator accepts the challenge.
 Under the civil service law of the State of Massachusetts no executive officer, clerk or employe of any department of the State or any city government may directly or indi- rectly solicit or receive or be in any manner concerned in soliciting or receiving any as sessmeDt, subscription contribution for any political purpose whatever, and no off : cer, clerk or other person in the service of the State or any city thereof may directly or indirectly give or hand over to any other officer, clerk or person in said service any money or other valuable thing on or account of or to be applied to the promotion of any political object whatever. Yet it is said that the Democratic manag CTS, finding them selves short of funds for the State campaign, are trying to make up the deficiency by col lections from the clerks and other official persons at the Boston City Hal1
 Mayor Hewitt said some things to Brick layers union No. which the members of all unions would do well to pay attention to. He pointed out that continual strikin is the mark of the rawest stage of trades unionism. The unions, he said, like children, ''go through dental period, and the first thing they do is to show their teeth" In Eng land, where the labor organizations are older and better managed than anywhere else, during the first fifty years nearly all their money was expended on strikes. But now all that is changed, and ninety-seven per cent. of their funds go into charity and mutual help. The same tendency, MT. Hew it said, appears in this country. In 1880 the greater part of the money contributed to trades unions' treasuries was expended in this way and the remainder went into bene- fits and mutual help. Mir Hewitt predicted that in iv. years from now only two per cent. of the union revenues would be ex- pended in strikes.